Customize Your Welcome Message

The welcome message is a Typepad feature that allows you to welcome readers to your blog. When readers come to your blog, a popover or embedded box will showcase a welcome message.

To add a welcome message to your blog, click on the Blogs tab, then the name of the blog. Click on Settings, Basic. Scroll down to the Welcome Message. 

The text box allows you to include HTML code. You can add code to the text box to include a link in your message. 

To add a link to your welcome message add and customize the following code in the welcome message text box. 

<a href="http://www.urlhere.com">Text you want readers to click on</a> 

Replace http://www.urlhere.com with the URL you want readers to go to. Then replace the text with the text you want readers to click on. 

For example, if you want to link to your about page the message text box will look like this: 

And the Popover message will look like this. 

You can also stylize the link so it further stands out. 

To underline the text, add <u> before the link code and </u> after it. 

<u><a href="http://www.urlhere.com">Text you want readers to click on</a></u>

The code will look like this in the text box:

It will look like this in the welcome message: 

To bold the text you will add <b> before the link and </b> after it. Your code will look like this: 

<b><a href="http://www.urlhere.com">Text you want readers to click on</a></b>

The code will look like this in the text box:

It will look like this in the welcome message: 

To add italics to your test, add <i> before the link and </i> after it. Your code will look like this: 

<i><a href="http://www.urlhere.com">Text you want readers to click on</a></i>

The code will look like this in the text box:

It will look like this in the welcome message: 

The welcome message can be used to say hello to your readers and guide them to learn more about you and your blog.